Do individuals with autism process words in context? Evidence from language-mediated eye-movements

Cognition

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 896-904

  Brock, Jon ^a,b   Norbury, Courtenay ^a,c   Einav, Shiri ^a   Nation, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism; Central coherence; Eye movements; Language impairment; Semantic processing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; COMPREHENSION; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 51249120292     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.06.007     Document Type: Article

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